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AlterReports was designed as a native Joomla reporting extension which covers all needs and aspects of reports for your website. Using SQL queries with rich filters and conditional statements allows you to view and download reports of your database data in most convenient way.

Access permissions help to control which reports and which report columns to display for certain usergroups, allow/disallow download formats etc.

Features:

Viewing and downloading of reports in frontend and backend.

Nested categories for reports.

Frontend views of categories (list of categories), category (reports from category) and single report.

Using different databases for loading reports data.

Creating of reports by entering SQL query, editing of query with SQL profile and explain results, easy inserting of tags and database tables into query.

Configurable filters for reports of few types (text field, text area, drop-down lists, checkboxes, radio inputs with either manually entered options or options loaded via SQL query), filter's values can be used in query as via tags.

Conditional statements for query: certain parts of SQL can be executed only if filter's value was entered.

Footer row: each column can have custom footer value or auto-calculated values (minimum, maximum, average and sum). XLS reports can have footer values either pre-calculated or have formulas (built-in AVERAGE(), SUM(), MIN(), MAX() or you can use own formula with replaceable tags of column data rows coordinates).

Each report column can have own style applied for report views, HTML, XLS and XLSX formats.
3-levels of style settings: global settings, individual report settings, column settings: you can easily change styles for all reports.

Count of report views and downloads.

Access levels for categories of reports, reports, available formats and columns.

HTML and PHP pre-processors for columns values: you can wrap a value into HTML code or change it via PHP.

I have searched for a lightweight but super powerful reporting tool for Joomla for a longtime now and stumbled across this when purchasing another extension from Alterbrains. This would have to be the best reporting extension out there at the moment. Top that off with incredibly helpful and fast support these guys have got it all covered. I just wish i could have given more stars. The features and flexibility written into this extension are amazing. If you need a reporting tool this is a must have.

Of all the extensions I've used over the years to display data from form submissions or anything else I wanted to present in a spreadsheet like format, this is the best by a long ways. Extremely flexible in presentation, layout and filtering of the data. So much control at any level, from the entire report down to just one column of information. The control of the presentation for both front end and backend has a great hierarchy that is easy to comprehend and implement. The support is at the very top of my list of developers, I can count on one hand the extension developers that are of this quality.

This is a bit embarrassing, but I didn't know there was a manual for the product until about my third inquiry into how to do something. And with this extremely robust extension I was still able to figure out almost everything I wanted to do without a manual. Now that I have a manual, I'm really going to have fun.

One last thing, the more you know about MySQL queries, the more you will be able to do with this program. You at least need to know how to make a simple SELECT, FROM, WHERE statement. If that doesn't mean anything to you, you will need to get a less robust extension for displaying your data.

MightySites

Paid download |
Multiple Sites |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

100

26 reviews

MightySites allows you to run multiply sites on same Joomla installation and share database data between different Joomla sites.
No hacks of core files are required and no Joomla! core files are patched.*
Ability to use content, users (with Community Builder and JomSocial support) from other sites.
You can have many Joomla! websites using a single hosting account, with same users and JomSocial contents but with different template etc.
Single login and logout feature is implemented for your websites. Session sharing is possible if sites have same top-level domain.
Features:
Using parked domains (also known as domain aliases) as separate websites hosted on same Joomla! installation.
Ability to create virtual sites in subfolders (http://mastersite.com/subfolder) hosted on same Joomla! installation.
Cloning databases for new sites from existing sites.
Sharing database data of default Joomla! components for Extensions, Permissions, Users, Templates, Categories, Content, Languages, Menus, Modules, Newsfeeds, Weblinks, Banners, Contacts, Smart Search.
Single frontend login/logout in specified Joomla! websites if login/logout on website with the extension installed (requires installation of plugins to all sites).
Single frontend login/logout in domains with same top-level domain (http://master.com and http://xxx.master.com) via session sharing.
No hacks to Joomla! are required*.
Overrides for sites running with single database and files: custom CSS files, custom homepage menu item selection, custom frontend template style selection, ability to hide menu items and modules, custom Favicon image, custom language file loading, custom 'File Path' and 'Image Path' settings of Media Manager, 'New User Registration Group' of Users Manager.
Sharing database data of 3rd-party extensions from different websites. We can add the desired extension if you wish, please contact Support for checking the availability of using the 3rd-party extension before purchase.
Free installation on request.
Please read about all features and find case studies on our site!
Only configuration.php file is auto-changed by the component.

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Direct Alias

Free |
SEF |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

100

18 reviews

Allows you to control menu item alias and have short SEF URLs without including aliases of parent menu items.
Joomla native routing is not quite robust and you can't control how the SEF URL of menu item is built. You can only define menu item alias - a component of URL.
By default aliases of Joomla menu items are relative: aliases of all parent menu items are auto-prepended to SEF URL.
So child menu items have URLs like:
http://site.com/parent-menu-item-alias/child-menu-item-alias
This plugin allows you to switch alias to 'direct' mode and have short URL without aliases of parent menu items:
http://site.com/child-menu-item-alias
Another option is not include alias of certain menu item into SEF URL of child items.

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AJAX toggler

Free |
Admin Performance |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

98

30 reviews

Revolution in Joomla Administration - AJAX toggler!
Speed-up Joomla! administration with AJAX support!
The plugin provides AJAX features and backend page isn't reloaded on various actions like publishing/unpublishing, featuring/unfeaturing, sorting tables by columns, pagination links, filtering, ordering, searching the rows etc. and even shows system messages.
Works in all modern browsers and with most 3rd party extensions.
Allows disabling of loading for selected components.
Free version includes:
- Ajaxified ordering and pagination of items lists
- Ajaxified changing of statuses in items lists

p8pbb bridge light

Paid download |
Forum Bridges |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

96

14 reviews

Extremely lightweight and none-invasive careful integration of phpBB 3 to Joomla!
Absolutely no hacks of core files.
Fast and elegant, no additional database queries are executed and no additional files are included except account-related actions.

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p8pbb comments

Paid download |
Forum add-ons. Autonomous |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

96

5 reviews

Comment on Joomla! articles in phpBB forums.
Auto-creating of phpBB topics for each Joomla! article with including/excluding certain sections or categories.
Supports phpBB BBCodes and smilies.
Completely AJAX-driven system.
Works with MyBlog.
Features:
Auto-creating of phpBB topics from Joomla! articles with preserving of main HTML tags and images.
Selecting which sections/categories to use/skip for topic creation.
Mapping of Joomla! categories to phpBB forums.
phpBB topic may include article's introtext, fulltext or link.
Template system.
Completely AJAX-driven comments.
Gravatar support.
Joomla! or template style for article buttons.
Basic social bookmarks icons for the article view.
phpBB topics icons for comments.
Guests can comment with phpBB captcha.
Basic phpBB moderators/administrators moderation links for comments.
All permissions are inherited from current phpBB user and forum.
Quoting of comments.
Reporting of comments to phpBB moderator.

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Alter Glossary

Paid download |
Glossary |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

96

4 reviews

Extremely powerful and full-featured glossary component for Joomla!
Features:
Absolutely unique advanced performance optimization for highlighting terms in content items: average server database load and memory usage are significantly minimized.
Frontend views 'List of Categories', 'List of Terms from Category', 'Single Term' and 'Add a Term'.
Frontend edit and creation of terms.
Separating of term full title and abbreviation (only abbreviation is highlighted in content).
Highlighting of terms in Joomla articles (with configurable allowed/disallowed categories) in article page and category articles listings, categories descriptions and custom HTML modules.
Highlighting of terms in Alter Glossary terms descriptions (with configurable allowed/disallowed categories), categories descriptions.
Highlighting of terms in K2 items (with configurable allowed/disallowed categories) in item page and category items listings, categories descriptions.
Count of term page views.
Alphabet filtering of terms with ability to configure preferred letters, separate letters into lines and add spacing between letters. Missed alphabet letters can be auto-disabled.
Search filter for tags with optional advanced search methods "Contains", "Begins with", "Exact" and "Sounds like".
"Sounds like" search method can use combinations of Soundex, Metaphone and Daitch-Mokotoff (works with Cyrillic terms) phonetic algorithms.
Bootstrap Tooltip or Bootstrap Popover types of tips for highlighting terms in content with configurable tip placement (top, bottom, left or right), Joomla 2.5 can use default MooTools-based tips.
Optional wrapping of highlighted term into a link to individual term page.
Native Joomla permissions system for creating, editing, editing state and editing own terms.
Nested terms categories, optional frontend display of terms counts in category.
Separating of term definition into introtext and fulltext, configurable display of introtext and/or fulltext in term category listings, individual term page and term tip.
Featured status for terms, featured terms can be optionally displayed first in category listing.
Intro Image and Main image selection for term category listing and individual term page.
Up to 5 configurable links for term, list of related links is displayed in individual term page.
Related terms feature, list of related terms is displayed in individual term page via "See also:" links. Terms are self-related: no need to setup relation of term B to term A if you already configured relation of term A to term B. Related term is easily configured via auto-suggestion list of available terms once you start typing term title.
Next/Previous terms links in individual term page.
Ability to configure list of HTML tags where terms won't be highlighted (essential feature for keeping your titles and links clean).
... and more - check full description on our site!

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Direct Alias Pro

Paid download |
SEF |
AlterBrains

3

Score:

94

2 reviews

Allows you to control menu item alias and have short SEF URLs without including aliases of parent menu items. Removes IDs from Joomla content articles, categories and tags URLs.
Joomla native routing is not quite robust and you can't control how the SEF URL of menu item is built. You can only define menu item alias - a component of URL.
By default aliases of Joomla menu items are relative: aliases of all parent menu items are auto-prepended to SEF URL.
So child menu items have URLs like:
http://site.com/parent-menu-item-alias/child-menu-item-alias
This plugin allows you to switch alias to 'direct' mode and have short URL without aliases of parent menu items:
http://site.com/child-menu-item-alias
Eg. this page could have URL http://alterbrains.com/direct-alias instead of http://alterbrains.com/joomla-extensions/seo/direct-alias.
Another option is not include alias of certain menu item into SEF URL of child items.
Additionally to the functionality of Direct Alias (free extension) listed above you can remove IDs from Joomla content articles, categories and tags URLs.
So instead of http://site.com/news/34-article-alias you will get http://site.com/news/article-alias.
Instead of http://site.com/news/12-news-subcategory-alias you will get http://site.com/news/news-subcategory-alias.
Instead of http://site.com/news/12-news-subcategory-alias/34-article-alias you will get http://site.com/news/news-subcategory-alias/article-alias.
Same for Joomla tags URLs: instead of http://site.com/tags/34-tag-alias you will have http://site.com/tags/tag-alias.
Previous native URLs with IDs are redirected to new URLs with 301 status, so search engines index will be preserved.
The demo is right here - check our News: it's usual Joomla 'Articles -> Category Blog' page but there are no article IDs.
Plugin adds only a single database query per category/article page, but it doesn't matter if Joomla caching is used. It's a nice and simple alternative to monstrous 3rd-party SEF extensions.

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AJAX Toggler Pro

Paid download |
Admin Performance |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

93

3 reviews

Speed-up Joomla! administration with AJAX support!
Change publishing status, order and sort items in a new amazing way!
Works in all modern browsers and with most 3rd party extensions.
Ajaxified ordering and pagination of items lists.
Ajaxified changing of statuses in items lists.
Ajaxified sorting of items lists by search filters.
Ajaxified search withing items lists.
Editing of list item without reloadinf page.

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Alter Articles

Paid download |
Article Elements |
AlterBrains

3

Score:

93

1 review

Expand functionality of Joomla articles with highly customizable map, gallery, attachments and related articles features.
Admin can configure additional data in backend article edit page, each feature can either inherit global settings or use own individual settings per article.
Common features:
Each feature can be enabled/disabled for certain categories.
You can setup the feature position: 'AfterTitle' trigger, 'BeforeText' trigger, 'AfterText' trigger, Prepend to text, Append to text, Replace tag in article, Store in article object. So actually each of features can be displayed in any place of article, or you can use own article template for complex layouts.
Each feature has its own separate layout file, articles can use either global setting of layout or individual setting. Developers can add own layouts easily.
No core files are modified, no additional database tables are created. The plugin uses native Joomla code.
Map features:
You can setup map width and height, map center, type and zoom level.
A marker can be placed on a map, you can setup market position separately.
Marker can have a title and a text for balloon (info window). Balloon can be auto-displayed on page load.
Gallery features:
You can easily select images for gallery from server folders.
Each image can have a title and caption text.
Thumbnails are auto-created for images using either individual article settings or global settings.
Few pre-defined layouts: 'Bootstrap Carousel' and 'Bootstrap Modal Carousel' (requires Bootstrap-based frontend template); 'Widgetkit Image Wall', 'WidgetKit Polaroid' and 'WidgetKit Spotlight' (requires Widgetkit from YooTheme installed).
Attachments features:
You can enter paths of attachments files, specify access level and published/unpublished state, link target.
Related Articles features:
You can select related articles and select order of display (most recent first or last, title alphabetically).

Modulation

Paid download |
Personal Layout |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

0

4 reviews

Improve usability of your website - make modules always visible and available for the user. Allow user to drag-and-drop modules and use them by his choice.
This extension auto-scrolls modules vertically and they are always visible for the user.
The modules become draggable and the positions are preserved for each user.
No database tables or queries, everything is smart and robust. Works with 99% Joomla! templates. Uses Joomla! native MooTools JavaScript library for Joomla 2.5 and jQuery for Joomla 3.
The modules are auto-scrolled vertically for specified positions and menu items. You can setup time delay, speed and effect settings.
The modules can be dragged vertically within same position for specified positions and menu items by using module's title. You can setup cross-hair cursor and "ghost" of moving module settings. User's choice of modules ordering is preserved and is separate for user's access level.
The version for Joomla! 1.7 allows to drag modules between positions and reset modules to their original state.

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GSearch - Google search

Paid download |
Site Search |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

0

0 reviews

Search different areas of your website using Google custom search engine. You select your menu items - and search is separated for them!
Ideal search solution for big websites.
Search module can search all menu items content or only by specific menu item.

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ScreenShooter

Paid download |
Article Elements |
AlterBrains

2.53

Score:

0

0 reviews

Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking.
Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
Preview thumbnails of links in modules and component area for certain menu items and modules.
Works with 99% Joomla! templates. Uses Joomla! 1.5 native MooTools JavaScript library.
The plugin adds tool-tips with URL screenshot from paid service of websnapr.com for links in modules and component area.
You can also specify which CSS class to use for component area and i.e. show tool-tips only for "Read more..." links.
You can select which modules to use and which menu items to use.